BORAX

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B(3) O(1) R(1) A(1) X(8)
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Definition

noun
  1. A white or gray/grey crystalline salt, with a slight alkaline taste, used as a flux, in soldering metals, making enamels, fixing colors/colours on porcelain, and as a soap, etc.
  2. The sodium salt of boric acid, Na2B4O7, either anhydrous or with 5 or 10 molecules of water of crystallisation; sodium tetraborate.
  3. (sometimes attributive) Cheap or tawdry furniture or other works of industrial design.

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